Does this mean we should give up even trying to work at the national and global levels? Each person will have to make up her or his own mind on that one. To my thinking, Copenhagen is something of a last straw. I have no interest in trying to discourage anyone from undertaking national or global activism. Indeed, there is a danger in taking attention away from national and international affairs: policy could get hijacked not just by parties even less competent than those currently in command, but by ones that are just plain evil. Nevertheless, this writer is finally convinced that, with whatever energies for positive change may be available to us, we are likely to accomplish the most by working locally and on a small scale, while sharing information about successes and failures as widely as possible.
Ha! A study finds that your reusable shopping bags are crawling with germs. Screw you, you filthy, dirty Hippy... spreading your filthy, file bacteria onto little babies, killing all life on Earth, you disgusting eco-nazi, Hitler loving - - - what? The study was funded by the plastic industry?. Never mind; as you were, tree-huggers. Mordor never sleeps.
